“You’re A Blast!” Rocket Valentine

I made this for Henry to give away last year at his preschool’s Valentine party.  I found a bunch of great Valentine ideas on the Family Fun website and Henry picked this one as his favorite.

The instructions said to use a roll of Lifesavers … but I couldn’t find any when I was trying to do the project.  Instead we used long Tootsie Rolls … which were really too small in circumference … but worked ok.  I printed out address labels with the message and just stuck them around the Tootsie Roll (sure beats handwriting them all!).  On the top I used a glue gun to attach a red Hershey’s kiss.  The “flame” was the most labor intensive part; I cut small red and yellow flames out of felt and used regular Elmer’s glue to adhere the pieces.  I used the hot glue gun again to attach the “flame” on the “rocket”.

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